Lightmap previews HDR Light Studio 3.5
Light your model by clicking on its surface to position highlights with this nifty real-time lighting toolset.
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
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Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 3.0 for 3ds Max
Update to gaseous fluid simulator adds per-voxel controls, new space warps. Maya version due this year.
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
The making of the VFX of Wrath of the Titans
The setting may be mythological, but the movie's approach to previz and performance capture is entirely new.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
Renderfarm.fi adds support for Cycles
Free distributed online rendering service adds support for Blender's new raytrace render engine.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
Shotgun Software announces Revolver
Upcoming all-in-one shot review toolset pitched as 'personal screening room' for VFX artists.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
mental ray 3.10 adds Ptex support, 'major' iray update
Autodesk posts full feature list for renderer: no word yet on which will be exposed in Max, Maya, Softimage.
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
Review: Wacom's Intuos5 pen tablets
Still as sleek as ever, but you probably won't upgrade your Intuos4 for the multi-touch controls alone.
Monday, April 9th, 2012
Eye candy: Franssiss
Creature Comforts takes a turn for the dark side in the first 'talkie' from the cult Babioles shorts' creator.
Monday, April 9th, 2012
Nvidia stops shipping mental mill
Retail distribution discontinued for MetaSL shader authoring tool bundled with Autodesk software.
Saturday, April 7th, 2012
Video: Christian Lichtner on the art of Diablo III
Fill the empty hours between now and 15 May with this one-hour talk from the game's art director.
Saturday, April 7th, 2012
xoio ships 24 free textures of bark, leaves, roads
Suitable for commercial work and complete with normal, bump, displacement and/or alpha maps.
Friday, April 6th, 2012
Sneak peek: depth of field and motion blur in iray
Speed difference between iray and mental ray in 3ds Max 2013 is 'amazing', claims artist Juan Gea.
Thursday, April 5th, 2012
The Pixel Farm announces PFDepth
PFTrack developer to debut nifty off-the-shelf tool for post-converting mono footage to stereo 3D at NAB.
Thursday, April 5th, 2012